Electoral fraud, corporate money influence and longstanding “buddy system” promises have saddled our nation with two of the sorriest damn candidates ever put forth as ostensible “alternatives”, both of whom are bought and paid for by the same people and who’ll take us to pretty much the same place, continuing ever further down this downhill spiral of offshoring, negative tax amortizations and ever increasing profits for the rich and corporate, while the rest of us get saddled with poverty, police brutality and the prospect of a multiple front global war.

Thanks ever so much. And all the general populace can do is growl and snap at each other on social media. No third party movement, no uprising against the malfeasance of the powers that be, no demands for equity, oversight and worker protections…just a batch of “unfriendings” and gasp-inducing soundbytes that accomplish nothing whatsoever.

Despite some oddly variable weather patterns that find the temperature shifting from summer heat to winter cold and back again in the course of a mere day, it’s suddenly apparent that spring has sprung upon us at last.

OK, I hear you asking. How do you know this, o great prestidigitator of yore? Simple. Because the album releases are coming at us fast and furious, and some truly quality ones they are!

So fasten your seat belts, lower your visors and prepare to jet off into one of the stronger months for music we’ve had in some time. Just because it’s spring doesn’t mean it’ll be all hearts and flowers, but it’s clear that with the incipient return of the Oak King, there’s an unusually positive vibe in the air…avaunt!Continue reading →